Ming Dynasty: A mere unruly commoner is rebelling against the heaven?

Chapter 180 I only regret that I didn’t clean up the Yang family!

Yang Kui led 20,000 Ming troops from Xuanfu and launched a surprise attack on Zhu Youtang's Tumubao camp from the rear.

The army attacked the camp. They ignored the 200,000 logistics personnel stationed outside the camp and headed towards the Tumubao camp with a clear goal.

Their only target was Zhu Youtang and the civil and military officials he brought with him.

In a very short period of time, Wang Zhi hastily organized 10,000 Xianzhen Camp troops and 10,000 Jinyiwei plus Western Factory troops to fight hard.

The two armies met and fought against each other.

The Xuanfu rebels led by Yang Kui, relying on the first-mover advantage of a sneak attack, charged ahead of time and dealt a powerful blow to the Xianzhen Camp coalition!
But the Xianzhen Camp, Jinyiwei and Xichang guards under Zhu Youtang were not ordinary people.

Relying on its equipment advantage, the Xianzhen Camp withstood the first wave of attacks from the Xuanfu rebels.

Afterwards, he joined forces with the Jinyiwei and Xichang guards and fought against the Xuanfu rebels.

The first fierce charge organized by Yang Kui did not gain a decisive advantage over the Xianzhen Camp.

Yang Kui was completely shocked by the powerful military strength displayed by the Xianzhen Camp.

Before this, he had never seen an army that could withstand the first round of charge of 20,000 cavalry.

Yang Kui was anxious and afraid. If they launched a surprise attack without any intention, the cavalry's first charge would not achieve a decisive result.

The outcome of this attack on the camp is hard to say!
Yang Kui was anxious and angry, and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Don't fight these soldiers head-on, fighting with them will only waste time!"

"Go kill the officials! Kill the officials!"

"Go kill the emperor!"

After Yang Kui finished speaking, he took the initiative to avoid the Xianzhen Army in front of him and ran around to kill the civil and military officials who were fleeing.

"Yes! Kill the officials! Kill the officials!"

The Xuanfu soldiers under Yang Kui fought and retreated, slaughtering the civil and military officials brought by Zhu Youtang everywhere.

Tumubao was only this big. Although the civil and military officials had already begun to flee in all directions when the Xuanfu Army attacked the camp, they still could not escape the butcher knife of the Xuanfu Army.

For a moment, screams were heard everywhere in the camp.

“Ahhhhhhhh!!!! This is the Ming army! This is the Ming army! The Ming army is rebelling! Rebelling!”

"The troops have mutinied! The border troops have mutinied!!! You are so bold! How dare you rebel! How dare you rebel!!!"

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I'm the head of the Ministry of War, and I'm in the same group as you! I'm the one who approves the amount of your military pay!"

"You cunning soldiers! If our Ministry of Revenue had not been in the capital to cover you, the border troops, you would have been dead long ago! How could you kill me?!"

"Who is your commander? Maybe I have a past relationship with your commander! Don't kill me! Don't!!!"

"..."

The civil servants were furious. They were both afraid of the butcher knives in the hands of these border troops and angry at their betrayal.

For their own interests, these border troops wanted to eliminate even their former allies.

Some of the generals even mounted their horses and took the initiative to fight the rebels.

The civil servants basically just cursed the Xuanfu soldiers for rebellion while running away in fear.

But they could not escape the pursuit of the Xuanfu soldiers. Often, before they could run a few steps, they were caught up by the Xuanfu soldiers behind them and half of their heads were chopped off with one knife.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"Do not kill me!!!"

"No! No!!!!"

"..."

The civil servant's screams before his death continued to ring in the ears of Xu Pu and Liu Daxia.

Zhu Youtang forced these two ministers to kneel in the grass for a whole night as punishment.

They did not sleep all night and witnessed the mutiny of the Xuanfu army, which came from the direction of Juyongguan, and then rushed into Zhu Youtang's camp, killing all the civil and military officials.

Xu Pu and Liu Daxia acted decisively and ran to Zhu Youtang's tent and hid themselves.

The two of them watched their former colleagues and subordinates die in front of them, feeling heartbroken and furious.

Most of their colleagues and subordinates are from the Jiangnan region.

After this battle, no matter what the outcome, the control of the Jiangnan civil service group over the court will definitely decline by several levels.

Such serious consequences are absolutely unacceptable to both of them.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Liu Daxia's eyes were bloodshot and his whole body was shaking. He didn't know whether it was because of anger or fear.

"Yang Tong is so audacious that he actually dared to send people to attack the camp! He even killed us accompanying officials!"

"He is simply not a human being! A beast! A beast!"

When Liu Daxia saw these Ming troops coming from the south, he immediately realized that these troops must have been sent by Yang Tong.

Seeing that the corruption and smuggling in the border town could no longer be concealed, he simply went all out and killed all the people patrolling the border town, including the emperor and officials!
This was not the first time that the Yang family had done such a thing. Forty years ago, Yang Tong's uncle Yang Hong launched the Tumu Incident, which brought huge losses to the Ming court.

Now, forty years later, as if it were a reincarnation, it was in Tumubao again, and the Yang family launched a military coup! The means were as cruel as before, and anyone who went to war with the emperor, whether civil or military, would be executed!
What they hate most is that after Emperor Yingzong restored the throne, he did not clean up the Yang family!

Xu Pu also felt a sense of betrayal and anger, and was equally terrified.

He also did not expect that Yang Tong would be so cruel and bold as to send people to attack the camp.

Moreover, Yang Tong did not even let go of his benefactors. You know, not long ago, he and Liu Daxia were imprisoned in the East Factory for Yang Tong!

"Yang Tong wants us all to die here. How dare he do that?"

"Isn't he afraid that the people in the capital will come after him later?"

"After all, this world...still belongs to the Zhu family..."

Suddenly, Xu Pu and Liu Daxia looked at each other, and a name appeared in their minds at the same time.

"Yu Shen!"

At that moment, the two of them felt like they were struck by lightning. They stood there in fear, and every hair on their bodies stood upside down, breaking out in cold sweat.

Thinking of what might happen in the capital, the two of them looked at each other in silence, their limbs going limp.

If the situation in the capital changes, those who leave the capital will never be able to go back!
Xu Pu and Liu Daxia looked at Zhu Youtang not far away, feeling extremely sad.

At this moment, officials such as Xu Pu and Liu Daxia had fallen into a dead end.

No matter how things develop in the future, no matter whether Yang Tong succeeds or fails, these people are doomed to die!
What a cruel person, what vicious means!
Xu Pu and Liu Daxia sighed to the sky. They had been scheming for half their lives, but in the end, they were finally schemed against by others!
In the center of the Tumu Fort camp, Zhu Youtang sat on his horse, calmly observing the situation around him.

Around him, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, Mou Bin, led five hundred Embroidered Uniform Guards and five hundred Western Factory guards, a total of one thousand factory guards, to protect him from harm.

Moreover, those Xuanfu soldiers who attacked the camp, except for the subordinates led by Yang Kui himself, intended to harm Zhu Youtang.

The other Xuanfu soldiers deliberately stayed away from Zhu Youtang after seeing his yellow military uniform.

The emperor can die, but he must not die openly at the hands of their swords.

In this way, the area around Zhu Youtang became the safest area in the camp.

Zhu Youtang now realized that he had fallen into a trap.

But there is no way, every decision he makes is what he thinks is the best solution at the moment.

If anyone is to blame, it is because his control over the northern border towns is too weak.

From the moment Zhu Youtang ascended the throne, he felt that his imperial power seemed to be able to control only the capital area and at most radiate to the entire northern Zhili.

The provinces further out seemed to be less restricted by imperial power.

Especially in the southern region, Zhu Youtang was completely blind.

Zhu Youtang had no idea how much of the information and data reported by local officials he could believe.

Take taxation as an example. The silver tax of the Minzhou Silver Mine in the fourth year of Tianshun was 40,270 taels of silver.

By the 23rd year of Chenghua, the tax revenue from the Minzhou silver mine was 900 taels of silver.

The annual tax revenue of a province’s silver mine is nine hundred taels of silver!
Those officials in the South have become so lawless!

This is the emperor who openly disgusts the Ming Dynasty.

The annual tax revenue of a province's silver mines is nine hundred taels of silver. You might as well say that the earthquake destroyed the silver mines.

There are many things like this. The South is not under Zhu Youtang's actual control at all.

If you want to control the South, you must fight the South again!
In order to declare war on the gentry in the South, there must be a stable North.

But the problem is that he can't control the northern border towns.

The generals in the border towns and the Ministry of War and Ministry of Revenue in the capital joined forces to smuggle arms.

Such a serious matter was discovered accidentally by the Embroidered Uniform Guards when they were interrogating the Shanxi merchant Zhang.

This shows how weak Zhu Youtang's control over the northern border towns was.

Zhu Youtang has made many big moves since he came to power.

But these major actions basically took place in the Gyeonggi area.

Is it that he doesn't want to clean up every place in the Ming Dynasty, north and south?

It is really the case that Zhu Youtang's power does not extend to those areas!
Zhu Youtang replaced officials in the capital one after another, but his power did not expand accordingly.

If he wanted to expand his sphere of power and control the northern region, he would have to bring the hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern border towns back under the imperial power.

The Wala invasion fabricated by Yang Tong just gave Zhu Youtang an opportunity to regain command of hundreds of thousands of troops in the border town.

Therefore, this is why Zhu Youtang had to lead the army in person this time.

However, Zhu Youtang was too impatient and greatly underestimated the strength of the counterattack from these civil servants and border generals.

He really didn't expect that these border generals would dare to attack his military camp. This was a naked rebellion!

At this critical moment, suddenly the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance.

Moreover, the momentum of this attack was even greater than when Yang Kui led his team to attack before.

Zhu Youtang looked back and saw the Xianzhen Camp with 40,000 soldiers in black armor and on black horses, led by Gao Shun, returning to Tumu Fort!
(End of this chapter)